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| Vocalist Ella Fitzgerald (b. Newport News, VA, April 25, 1917; d. June 15, 1996) is one of the most remarkable talents of 20th century popular music. Equally adept as a jazz singer and a pop singer, Fitzgerald won 12 Grammys (including a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 1967) and was voted "top female vocalist" by Down Beat magazine over twenty times. She began her career singing with bandleader Chick Webb in 1934. By 1936, Fitzgerald had recorded her first Top 20 song and, for the next fifty years, Ella Fitzgerald performed and recorded some of the best-selling and most-loved songs in the world.
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